Inria Chile continues its development in South America. In recent years, with Claude Puech at the helm, she has strengthened her network of contacts and has set up partnerships with investment structures to accelerate the creation of strategies in Chile. Appointed on September 1st as Director, Nayat Sanchez Pi intends to pursue this strategy and implement an ambitious settlement project that includes opening to French partners, the revitalization of the transfer policy and the establishment of a sustainable economic model.

Thirty years ago, the Web was set up to meet an ever-growing need to organise and access information. As a founding member for Europe of the W3C, Inria take a look back at the birth of the Web as both a research subject and a tool, assessing the problems that continue to be raised.

Capitalizing on five years of research-collaboration success, Mitacs and Inria renewed their partnership originally signed in 2014. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) supports two-way international research opportunities for graduate researchers at Canadian universities and at eight Inria Research Centres in France.

The CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) and Inria have awarded the 2017 "privacy protection" Prize to a European research team. During the 11th international conference Computers Privacy and Data Protection
(CPDP) to Seda GÜRSES, Carmela TRONCOSO and Claudia DIAZ for their article « Engineering privacy by design reloaded
».

The CCSD (Centre for Direct Scientific Communication) and Software Heritage have announced their collaboration beginning early 2018: it will enable the data repository in HAL to be extended to software and, as a result, contribute to the recognition of the work of research software developers.

Facebook is investing an additional 10 million Euros and doubling the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in order to accelerate research on artificial intelligence in France. As a result, Facebook's European hub is strengthening its partnership with Inria.

Facebook is investing an additional 10 million Euros and doubling the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in order to accelerate research on artificial intelligence in France. As a result, Facebook's European hub is strengthening its partnership with Inria.

InriaSoft aims for the durable development of large-scale software programs by bringing together their user communities within consortia that will finance a team of engineers tasked with their maintenance and evolution. The InriaSoft headquarters are based in Rennes, as Claude Labit, director, and David Margery, technical director of this national action backed by the Fondation Inria, explain.

Alexandra Roatiș: "Research in computer science, as in mathematics, demands a high degree of creativity"

The third "Semaine des Mathématiques" (Mathematics Week) has chosen to place "Mathematics at the crossroads of cultures". This is an opportunity for Inria to put the spotlight on its interaction with other disciplines. We can illustrate this with the career of Alexandra Roatiș, a PhD student of Romanian origin and a researcher in computer science in the OAK team.

"How could I have studied anything other than computer science?"
wonders Alexandra Roatiș. And rightly so; as a child her father, a database administrator, passed on his passion for puzzles, logic games and computers. And she vividly remembers the day he first showed her Google. "I spent my time searching for images and printing them"
, she recalls. She was a good student and decided to turn her passion for computing into her field of study. As a Masters student at the University of Timisoara in Romania in 2009, she specialised in artificial intelligence.

Inria, land of passion

During her Masters, she carried out two internships in software development at Inria. This was an exciting experience. "I realised that I found computer science totally stimulating, because as with mathematics, you need to demonstrate a high degree of creativity"
, she says. In 2011, she chose to do her PhD in France, which allowed her to continue the work she had already started with Ioana Manolescu and François Goasdoué, who had supervised both her internships. "I would never have chosen to do my thesis in Romania, as the grants available for PhD students are so small that it is impossible to live properly"
, she admits. So she joined the OAK team, which specialises in data representation and processing. Her thesis is on the processing of queries for so-called "RDF" (Resource Description Framework) data. This graph data model describes web resources and their metadata so that they can be processed automatically.

Art, Science and Travel

During her first year, she was also involved in the design of interactive software for the "Imagerie biomédicale : la vie en transparence"
exhibition at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris. In this context, she worked primarily on the Autoportrait project, an experience which was both artistic and scientific. "For the first time, I had the opportunity to observe the impact my work had on the general public. It was a very rewarding experience"
, confides Alexandra Roatiș. Since then, she has taken part in several projects within the OAK team, including one in collaboration with the University of California, San Diego in the United States, called "Languages and techniques for efficient large-scale Web data Management", whose objective is to improve the processing of complex data. "I went to San Diego with the team and presented my work", she explains. I might like to do a post-doctorate there, once I have finished my current work."
She will decide at the end of 2014, after she has defended her thesis. Her next steps? "I hope to return to Europe, but perhaps not to France. I have really enjoyed my time here, but there are so many countries I would like to discover!"